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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1981
Page
3
Chicago AP The three arch Old Stone Gate, once the portal of death for millions of cattle hogs and sheep, has been named a national historic landmark. Interior Secretary Watt praised the gate as the last surviving emblem of the world’s once great stockyard market.
Gov. James R. Thompson says the Reagan administration will remain neutral in the GOP race for lieutenant governor between Illinois House Speaker George H. Ryan and state Sen. Donald L. Totten. The White House reportedly declined to endorse either candidate, though a Sept. 17 fund-raiser for Totten could conflict with neutrality. Totten plans an Sept. 10 Chicago announcement. Ryan’s camp promises a formal statement soon. Prescott Bloom and Herbert V. Huskey have already announced.
A Johnson County protest group has not filed suit over the destruction of the Bethlehem Church of Christ near Vienna. The 1847 church, inactive 25 years, was torn down by Raymond and Mrs. Raymond McIntyre. Maurice Nelson says a meeting will set a new trustees board and possible civil and criminal charges may follow. Local officials cite inaction and lack of guaranteed restitution as delaying action.
Marion County murder suspect William John Posey Jr. faces return to Illinois within 30 days after a Burlington Vermont federal court found him guilty of kidnapping Iris Brown. Posey, 37, linked to a 1980 Jan. 25 murder in Fairfield, awaits sentencing then will be held under 500000 bond in Salem as appeals continue over suppression of evidence from a Dallas motel room.
A Sept. 16 arraignment date was set in Mercer County for Illinois teens tied to the June 29 arson of the old Keithsburg bridge over the Mississippi River. Alan Grove 18 faces arson charges. Christopher Johnson 18 and David Santamaria 17 had accountability to arson reduced to concealing a fugitive. The blaze collapsed a span delaying more than 200 barges as a private firm aided by the Army Corps of Engineers used dynamite to remove another damaged section.
Ten years of legal fights over the Bailly nuclear site near Indiana Dunes ends as Northern Indiana Public Service Co. quits plans. Residents from Dune Acres and Chesterton, led by the Izaak Walton League and allied groups, push to intervene from 1972 onward, facing AEC hearings, appeals courts, and the Supreme Court before victory.
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